[mythtv] Adjusting individual time offsets

[Brian Foddy]

A small comment on time offsets I've noticed.  I have my
myth machine getting ntp time controll, and most of the shows
I have it record are perfect.  Take the 5:30 national news
broadcasts, it starts perfectly at the top of the show.  But
then when the 6:00 local news comes on its late by a couple
minutes.  This is because the local channels (here in MSP)
start their local news immediately after the 5:30 news signs
off, not waiting for the commercials to end at 6:00.  I guess they
don't want viewers a chance to channel surf away.

I'm not sure what can really be done about that unless
each individual show is allowed to be shifted by a 
couple minutes; which could result in some messy code
trying to deal with lots of start/stop times.  Another thought
would be to schedule multiple shows on the same channel to
be recorded as one, ie:  record NBC from 5:30-6:30.

In my case, its not really that big a deal.  Its usually only
local broadcasts that may start early/late.  An example of
starting late is again in MSP, the 10:30pm shows actually 
are time shifted by 5 minutes to start at 10:35pm
(Gives the local news 5 more minutes of commercials :).  
But in this case its in the schedule so myth handles that.

I would say overall, a NTP controlled myth box is 1000%
improved over a VCR where the clock is set by your watch.
Perhaps, as part of the aux documentation for myth, there should
be a stong encouragement and links to help setting up NTP.

Brian

On Sunday 20 April 2003 02:15 pm, Joel Feenstra wrote:
> Hmm, that would be very tricky to fix. What I'm working on now does it
> per channel, not per show. I suppose if the timeoffset were more of a
> list of offsets with time information in it as well, that could be used
> instead. I'll look into that possibility. That is once I actually get
> the hourly offset working.
>
> Joel Feenstra
>
> DanM wrote:
> > Andy, what about the ability to do it on a per timeslot, per channel
> > basis?  My local fox station is right on the mark until 9:30pm m-f when
> > they become 10 - 15 mins off
> >
> > -dan